Jennifer Marohasy

“THERE is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible. The ethics of environmentalism are being taught to children [...]

It’s that time of year when there is much wishing one another a “Happy New Year”. 
But how does one become “happy”?
According to the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus the path to happiness requires just three things: friends, freedom and thought (an analysed life).*  
Epicurus is also associated with the early development of the scientific method insisting that nothing should [...]

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.  John Milton [via Benny Peiser]

“Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies.  The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating.  To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.” S. Warren Carey (Australian geologist) via Fred Singer.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. Abba Eban via Joe D’Aleo

Since the dawn of thought, people have been using various methods to foretell the future.   Forecasting is now big business and many large businesses have been made smaller through incorrect forecasts.
In Australia we have suffered long enough from bad forecasts.  It is time to do something to improve forecasting standards. 

In science, refuting an accepted belief is celebrated as an advance in knowledge; in religion it is condemned as heresy.  via Fred Singer.

Before this year’s Beijing Olympic Games, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd chastised the Chinese authorities for blocking full access to the internet for the assembled world media: “My attitude to our friends in China is very simple”, he said. “They should have nothing to fear by open digital links with the rest of the world during [...]

“There is no such thing as consensus science.  If it’s consensus, it isn’t science.  If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.  Period.”  Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

Hi Jen, Have you read Richard Lindzen’s article about the politicization of science. Did you know Realclimate.org is an astroturf set up by a left-wing PR firm? Al Gore sued Fred Singer to remove a co-author. Numerous heads of climate science organizations are not really climate scientists at all.
It’s all there and much more…
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